with, you know, the presentation of evidence they had to the grand jury with the evan corcoran notes, you have cipa issues here, they re going to have to be played out, and you have mainly the mensrea where he knowingly did something the law probed, all of the evidence we ve seen so far indicates exactly the opposite, he believed he was entitleded to do what he did. laura: now, mike, as a former practicing attorney myself for white collar criminal defense, if i were advising a client, a regular client, i d say like don t try to litigate this in the press, that s usually a loser. but this is a different situation. but is there still a danger for president trump to speak out publicly about the case as he did tonight, given how we know they try to use everything against him and they can use anything he says publicly against him at trial? well, we all know that no
what the judge tells but in the instructions a juror is able to follow their own inclination whether this is a just prosecution now. it takes one juror. joining me now david former trump impeachment employer and seoul former assistant u.s. attorney as well as mike davis founder and president of the article three project. saul, let s start with you. what about the last point? lay out the process if you would for jury selection in this type of case, how long could it take, how critical is it? well, when you say this type of case, there really is no case just like this, a former president indicted and going to trial. unfortunately, in most federal criminal tries, unlike in state trials, very limited, what we call voir dire in some parts of the country and voir dire in texas, where you get to question the jury before you select them, there is very limited voir dire
the goods, then how is that not one of the biggest scandals of all time? so the president spoke to this i think he was shouted a question about this at the thursday press conference and i m just going to quote him and say it s malarkey. laura: yet over the past 24 hours this is all we could find on the biden bomb shells from all the major networks [crickets chirping]. laura: oh, network news didn t even cover it and we couldn t find any mention of it on cable news outside of fox. nothing. what a disgrace. and these people raise questions about whether judge aileen cannon should recuse herself from a trump case based on a political bias? their wagging finger is always pointed right back at them. joining me now congressman jim comer chairman of the house oversight committee. congressman your reaction to everything that s swirling around tonight, what happened today at the courthouse in miami, and you heardd the crickets, they didn t cover anything about the tape
by the attorney. it s almost all done by the judges in the federal judicial system. my question is that that will be loosened up a bit in this particular case. but also i would like to say that, i think it s a little pessimistic to have to say we re going to rely on one juror to engage in jury nullification because i think the president has some real defensible issues here. this is a winnable case. i m not saying he would definitely win it or it s a slam dunk for him but there are some real issues here and i don t think he s going to have to rely on jury nullification necessarily. laura: i m going to get back to that in a moment but david, i want to play a mope from obama s sg earlier today. he s not president anymore. he doesn t get to, when you leave the presidency, take home documents as a souvenir. this is the people s information, that s why we have such a robust set of criminal rules to protect the mishandling of it. trump just spit on all of that
according to this indictment. nothing i ve heard, you know, tells me that he has a viable defense. laura: david, again, it s just declared, no defense at all. pick up where saul just left off. well, addressing when the solicitor general said, apparently, it s really outrages for a justice department official to say something like that and try to color things in that regard. they have an obligation to the system and the integrity of the system to not put out that kind of statement. listen, you know, the president is unique. a former president is unique. congressional research service put out a piece in february talking about the protocols that former presidents regularly get intelligence briefings. so the former president, like a president, has that knowledge in his mind. what if president trump had just talked about what was in the documents? is that covered by the charges in this case? this case is about documents. but there are all kinds of defensess in this case starting